An off-duty sergeant was videotaped Monday pulling a gun on a bike messenger during a tense standoff over an apparent near-miss crash in the West Village that ended with the cyclist under arrest.
The video starts with the sergeant holding what looks like a silver revolver, as a cyclist yells, “Put that away! Put that away! You’re on camera!”
Cops said they were reviewing the footage.
Messenger Dejaune Jones, 21, was arrested, accused of punching the sergeant’s side-view mirror, kicking his front bumper and menacing him with what might have been an ice pick.
Aaron Lawrence, 22, who took the video and posted it to his Facebook page about 3:15 p.m., said he, Jones and two other messengers were riding on W. 10th St. near Greenwich Ave. when the cop’s vehicle nearly hit one of them.
“My friend kind of screamed at him as he’s riding off. . . . He stops his car, and he’s getting out of the car. As soon as he gets out of the car, I see a gun in his hand,” Lawrence said.
The sergeant started yelling, “Get on the floor, get on the floor!” according to Lawrence. That’s when he started filming.
“He doesn’t say he’s a cop. He doesn’t pull out a badge,” Lawrence said, adding the cop at one point lowered his gun and waved the cyclists off.
Police sources said the sergeant was retreating into a restaurant to call 911 because he felt threatened.
Jones was charged with criminal mischief, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and harassment, issued a desk appearance ticket and released. He shook the sergeant’s hand and apologized on his way out, police sources said.
